ALTM vs. EMN, NEU, FUL, HGASW, VNTRQ, RS, CE, IP, ALB, and BG
Should you be buying Arcadium Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcadium Lithium include Eastman Chemical (EMN), NewMarket (NEU), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Global Gas (HGASW), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Reliance (RS), Celanese (CE), International Paper (IP), Albemarle (ALB), and Bunge Global (BG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and Arcadium Lithium (NYSE:ALTM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
Eastman Chemical received 707 more outperform votes than Arcadium Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Arcadium Lithium an outperform vote while only 64.48% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote.
Eastman Chemical currently has a consensus target price of $106.24, suggesting a potential upside of 5.47%. Given Arcadium Lithium's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Eastman Chemical is more favorable than Arcadium Lithium.
83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.0% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Arcadium Lithium has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Eastman Chemical. Arcadium Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 10.16% compared to Eastman Chemical's net margin of 0.00%. Arcadium Lithium's return on equity of 13.84% beat Eastman Chemical's return on equity.
Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Arcadium Lithium pays an annual dividend of 6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 131.3%. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Arcadium Lithium pays out 576.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eastman Chemical has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 11 more articles in the media than Arcadium Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 1 mentions for Arcadium Lithium. Arcadium Lithium's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Eastman Chemical's score of -0.30 indicating that Eastman Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arcadium Lithium has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats Arcadium Lithium on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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